Religion: God Explained

Did God speak through the psalmist who wrote: O daughter of Babylon, . . . Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones. ( PSALMS 137:8, 9)?

Did God speak through Samuel who ordered the destruction of the Amalekites, women and children included (I SAMUEL 15:3)?

A correspondent posed these questions to the editor of the Presbyterian, staunchest fundamentalist periodical of that denomination, published in Philadelphia. The editor of the liberal, undenominational Christian Century amused its readers by reprinting the Presbyterian's reply: ". . . We believe they are the...

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